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Re: intent to remove libglide from non-free



On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 01:14:17PM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote:
>     Roderick> RESTRICTIONS: You may not: 1. Sublicense the Materials;
>     Roderick> 2. Reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the
>     Roderick> enclosed software; 3. Use the Materials for for any
>     Roderick> platform or products other than 3Dfx products; 4. Make
>     Roderick> copies of the Materials other than for back-up purposes,
>     Roderick> and you may not use the back-up copies other than as a
>     Roderick> replacement for the original copy.  You must include on
>     Roderick> the back-up copies all copyright and other notices
>     Roderick> included on the Materials; and 5. Export the Materials
>     Roderick> in violation of the export control laws of the United
>     Roderick> States of America and other countries.
> 
> This is *so* non-free it can't even go on our FTP site. You can't make
> copies of the materials other than for back-up purposes.
> 
> We're currently violating the license if we have it on our FTP sites.

They can be contacted for permission for Debian to release .deb packages,
however that is not going to float well and would guarantee that the
software is non-free (the fact that we'd have to ask kinda spells that one
out though..)

Perhaps an installer package to pick apart the rpm and install the thing?

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